Tudor Bratu: for cigarettes...

She was eighteen, my mother told me, and spent her summers daydreaming and writing poetry somewhere in the dusty countryside at the outskirts of Bucharest. Every day, except Sunday, the postman would deliver a letter from her lover. ?To Cristina? the envelope said in curled words that suggested the careful touch of his hands. Next to the letters, folded inside the envelopes, she would always find five or ten lei, depending on how much he had put aside by eating less.
?For cigarettes?, a note would say, ?with all my love?. Reading the pile of letters years later I wasn?t surprised to find none written by my mother. I have always felt that in the meeting of art and love, love always loses.

Tudor Bratu is an artist and writer. He lives and works in Bucharest and Amsterdam and is the founder of the residency program Bucharest AiR.

(Partner: Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Wien)

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